Usually means: Mammal with long snout, eats ants.
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  1. anteater: Merriam-Webster
  2. anteater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anteater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anteater: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anteater: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anteater, anteater: Wordnik
  7. anteater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anteater: Wiktionary
  9. anteater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anteater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anteater: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anteater: Dictionary.com
  13. anteater: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Anteater (disambiguation), Anteater (video game), Anteater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. anteater: Rhymezone
  16. anteater: FreeDictionary.org
  17. anteater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. anteater: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. anteater: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. anteater: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anteater: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anteater: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anteater: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Anteater, anteater: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Any of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.
▸ noun:  Any of some other not closely related species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark and numbat (banded anteater).
▸ noun:  (slang) An uncircumcised penis.

Similar:
spiny anteater, pangolin, scaly anteater, echidna, numbat, aardvark, banded anteater, ant bear, myrmecobius fasciatus, new world anteater, more...

Opposite:
antilope, antikin, antipredator

Types:
aardvark, pangolin, more...

Phrases:
spiny anteater, giant anteater, scaly anteater, silky anteater, banded anteater, more...

Adjectives:
spiny, giant, scaly, great, silky, toed, collared, australian, marsupial, banded, american

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Similar:
spiny anteater, pangolin, scaly anteater, echidna, numbat, aardvark, banded anteater, ant bear, myrmecobius fasciatus, new world anteater, more...

Opposite:
antilope, antikin, antipredator

Types:
aardvark, pangolin, more...

Phrases:
spiny anteater, giant anteater, scaly anteater, silky anteater, banded anteater, great anteater, lesser anteater, new world anteater, two-toed anteater, two toed anteater, porcupine anteater, more...

Adjectives:
spiny, giant, scaly, great, silky, toed, collared, australian, marsupial, banded, american

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     beige,     tan, more...



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